Wei Yi Wins Danzhou
Catching up on one more tournament, China's greatest chess hope - at least for the time being - has once again demonstrated his current ability and promise for the future. Wei Yi, 18 years old as of about six weeks ago...
Catching up on one more tournament, China's greatest chess hope - at least for the time being - has once again demonstrated his current ability and promise for the future. Wei Yi, 18 years old as of about six weeks ago...
When we last left off after round 7 of 9, Teimour Radjabov led the Grand Prix event in Geneva with 5/7; Pentala Harikrishna and Alexander Grischuk were half a point behind. Two rounds later, the tournament...
Vladimir Kramnik may be Mr. Dortmund, having won the tournament about 50 times (okay, only ten times, including ties), but it's a rocky start for him so far. In round 1 he had White against Vladimir Fedoseev...
Behnam Partopour, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) student from Iran, is greeted by his sister at Logan Airport after he cleared U.S. customs and immigration in February in Boston. The State...
The United States of America imports most of its grandmasters from around the world (or at least it seems to) and many of its products from Asia (cars, electronics, toys, etc.), so it's only fitting that its best magazine would be produced by the good folks from Serbia.
We regret to announce the retirement of Bert Corneth as our web-editor, due to personal reasons. Of course we fully respect his decision, but consider his retirement a great loss for the KWA, as he...
We soldier on, despite the absence of readers submitting groans at our Geneva Convention pun in the last post. Very disappointing. (Maybe such word plays were prohibited by that Convention as cruel and unusual punishment?
Essex Rapid 2017
Sunday 16 July 2017, at Scout HQ, Paradise Road, Writtle CM1 3HW
Last call for the Essex Rapid this coming Sunday. Note the NEW VENUE in Writtle - see map document below.
Traditionally, Russia’s female sporting teams have excelled at gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and ice skating on the international stage. But the last decade has seen women turning their hand to a number of male-dominated sports including rugby...
“Queen of Katwe” is based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community...
The Geneva (chess) convention is off today, so that leaves Danzhou as the one super-event seeing action on Tuesday. Coming into the round there had been only one win in the first two rounds, by Wei Yi, and in round three he made it a double by defeating Ruslan Ponomariov with White in a Reti.
The story behind one of the best scenes in Spider-Man: Homecoming…
Spoiler alert: Spider-Man: Homecoming’s plot, including one pivotal scene, is discussed in full below.
There’s a lot to love about Spider-Man...